Jean miotte biography

Jean Miotte (1926 – March 1, 2016) was a.
Jean Miotte was a French abstract painter, in the style known as L'Art Informel.
Jean Miotte was born in Paris on September 8th, 1926 and spent his youth in Occupied Paris: he was eighteen years old at the end of the war.

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Jean Miotte

Selected exhibitions

Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, 1953. Participated regularly from this date on

Exposition d’Ouverture, Galerie du Haut du Pavé, Paris, 1954

50 Ans d’Art Abstrait, to coincide with the publication of the Dictionnaire de la Peinture abstraite by Michel Seuphor, Galerie Creuse, Paris, 1957

Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris, 1957

Réalités Nouvelles, Nouvelles Réalités, 13e Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Kunsthalle de Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen (Germany), 1958

Cinq Peintres de Paris: Bogart, Bysantios, Jousselin, Miotte, Mihailovitch, Galleria Attico, Rome, 1958

Section Informel: Hains, Miotte, Neiman, Foldes, Favory …, First Paris Biennale, Paris, 1959

15 Peintres de Paris, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 1959, 1962

Ouverture, Galerie Flinker, Paris, 1960

Ouverture, Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, 1960

Galerie Am Dom, Frankfurt, 1960

Galerie Gunar, Düsseldorf, 1960

Exposition Internationale, Museum Wolfram Von Eschenbach, Wolframs-Eschenbach (Germany), 1961

Sam Francis, Mathieu, Miotte, Riopelle, Galerie Swe

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Jean MIOTTE

Biography

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Jean Miotte was born in Paris on September 8, 1926.

After studying mathematics, he decided to devote himself to painting.

He painted his first paintings from life and imaginative compositions in 1945, and in 1947, he began to frequent the workshops of Montparnasse; the workshops of Othon Friesz, Ossip Zadkine.

He exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in 1953, which he then participated every year.

From 1962, he tends towards a more descriptive graphics, accentuates the contrasts and widens the space.

In 1975, he returned to a great sobriety of colors, a rhythmic interference of colors or a rhythmic interference of planes where white dominated.

In 1976, he adopted gouache, Kraft collage and newsprint, following the development and unwinding of a body of research.

The Jean Miotte foundation was opened in New York in 2002, with a permanent collection of his works.

He died on March 1, 2016 in Pignans (Var).

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Jean Miotte
Biography

Jean Miotte, one of the founding fathers of the Informel, was born in Paris in 1926. Childhood and youth were overshadowed by World War II. After the end of the war Jean Miotte began his studies of mathematics and engineering. His free time, however, was reserved for (figurative) painting.
Jean Miotte’s interest in art became increasingly bigger. He visited the studios at Montparnasse as of 1947, where he met his future teachers Othon Friesz and Ossip Zadkine. Works by Georges Rouault or Henri Matisse also had decisive influence on the young artist.
After a journey to Italy (1948) Jean Miotte settled in 1950. He met Hans Arp and Gino Severini and painted his first abstract pictures. In 1953 Miotte, who was a close friend of Serge Poliakoff, Pierre Dimitrienko and André Lanskoy, relocated to Bologna.
In his early abstract works, which were shown in his first solo show at Galerie Durand in Paris in 1957, darker colors dominate. In his later more mature compositions rhythmic painting values show full effect. Next to black and white he also focuses o